Why The Individual Ranks For Each Role?

Goblin Bot·4/25/2018, 8:51:52 PM·3 votes·6,153 views

The whole idea of individual ranks for each role just sounds awful. What if I’m decent at two roles? I main adc, but I have a few champions with m7 in mid. This whole idea just makes it so that I have to play one role and that’s it. Look, adc gets boring sometimes, especially when I’ve been playing the same meta champs over and over, when an example being Varus and Jinx. Let’s say that I am able to play Evelynn pretty well (mastery 7 btw) and want to play her to feel something new. If i’m already plat in the adc role, doesn’t that mean I have to do promos entirely again? And have to start at a whole new rank again? That would just feel awful. I’d rather take a break from league than have to start at a whole 1-2 divisions down. Like if I play as adc for 20 games, let’s say I reach gold 1. Then I switch to jungle and play another 20 games to only reach gold 1 on that position as well. THERES NO PROGRESSION. Another problem would be smurfing. Let’s say I have a friend in silver 3. I can just duo with him as an carry role even if I’m way higher than him on the ladder. It’s legit smurfing without making a new account. Finally, the queue times. With support being (maybe) one of the most least played roles, there’s just not gonna be enough players to be able to wait for a person to queue up as a support. And there’s no way they can do an auto fill with this system. This whole idea just seems unnecessary. It hinders progression, it hinders variety, it hinders a fair match up, and finally, it hinders the fun in ranked.

13 Comments

booplesnoots4/26/2018, 2:04:55 PM5 votes

it feels dumb because most people who soloq only play 2-3 roles well anyways... Also, if I am a Plat level adc but only silver on support, what is stopping me from queueing up with a friend in silver as a support and having him play support and me play adc in pick/ban phase? would that count towards my support rank even tho I'm not playing support? Wouldn't i be matched against ADCs in silver that way and have a much easier game than if I was up against plat players? I hope riot really considers the feedback before doing anything rash.

Credhits8/26/2018, 6:19:14 PM5 votes

Is this a for sure or is Riot accepting feedback and willing to remove this if the community doesn't like it?

Mob Piru4/25/2018, 9:43:03 PM2 votes

the way i see it, supports ranking system should be cake to get to challenger lmao

CatchMyBlade11/28/2018, 7:19:47 AM1 votes

It's the most unnecessary thing I've ever seen done in my life. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the way ranked is now. The one thing i thought riot couldn't possibly fuck up they fuck up. I swear if they don't trash the idea now while literally everyone hates it i'm probably going to quit this game lol, it makes ranked no where near enjoyable, "splash" sounds just stupid and there is no point to it. Fuck sake I never thought i would have to worry about a rank per role lmao.

haaaaaaalp4/25/2018, 9:03:20 PM1 votes

Because the entire idea of an elo system is that it is trying to take a large sample of you playing the same role and trying to determine a numerical value. It doesn't work well when it gets data from 5 different sources measuring your skill at 5 different roles.

Graves JG KEKW 12/9/2018, 11:01:10 PM1 votes

I find it stupid that some1 could only play mid, get +diamond by playing just mid, have a silver rank for top, go play top lane and be so much better mechanically than them.

FOR JUSTICE4/25/2018, 9:20:50 PM1 votes

At least it shifts from complaints about "stop placing noobs in my silver games" to "stop placing noobs in my bronze games, they belong in wood"

King0fBongo11/8/2018, 10:20:22 AM1 votes

I love to play different roles and different champs, I que up for fill 60% of the time. Sometimes I play one role whole day long or even one champ. But no matter what I play I want to climb and play with players of my skill. So if I don't gain LP in let's say top lane, I will technical be smurfing. Wich I find very boring. I don't understand the need to change the current system anyway it's good the way it is. And for me you aren't worth your rank if you can only play one role.